The Calgary Flames have sent injured defenseman Mark Giordano back to Alberta, and he will not be in the lineup on Monday night against the Philadelphia Flyers.
Giordano sustained an upper-body injury when he fell awkwardly in a game last week against the New Jersey Devils. Though Giordano took the ice for the warmup skate ahead of this weekend’s game against the New York Islanders, he was unable to play.
He may be unable to play for a while, though the Flames aren’t exactly being forthcoming about his timeline at the moment.
On Sunday afternoon, while meeting with the media to discuss the Curtis Glencross trade, Flames general manager Brad Treliving provided a vague, but apologetic update on Giordano’s status:
He’s gone home. I know i’m being not very helpful with that. We’ve placed him on IR.
I commit that I’ll have more information by tomorrow for you, he obviously won’t play tomorrow, and we’re just trying to work through it.
We all saw in Long Island the other night, Mark took warmup. He’s a guy where if there’s a will – a slight possibility that he was going to play in that game – he was going to try. It wasn’t possible He’s gone back to Calgary now and see what the next couple of days bring…
The Flames still have a week and four games remaining on their current Eastern Conference road trip, and now that Giordano has been sent home, it seems likely that he won’t play until the Flames return to Calgary to host the Anaheim Ducks on March 11.
Treliving obviously hasn’t ruled out the possibility of Giordano being airlifted back into the Flames lineup before then, but reading between the lines, it would seem likely that Calgary will be without their captain for at least a week.
Not good news at all, the fact he’s flying back to Calgary tells me it could be a lot more serious. He’s going to be re-examined again. You usually don’t have a player leave a road trip unless it’s a serious injury.
Back in the playoffs.
What? Without him we definitely miss playoffs. He is the offensive AND defensive catalyst of Flames. By March 20, sadly Flames are officially out but practically out by March 11
Kings lost. That’s all.
And the Flames are back in 3rd place in the Pacific Division…
and the Kings have no more games in hand on the Flames…
and San Jose 2 points back with the Flames having a game in hand…
Life is Good!
Except for the topic of this article…
Well poop. I guess it’s not terribly surprising…here’s hoping he’s healed and back asap to lead the team.
My Flames schedule says they play the Flyers on Tuesday!!
So should we trade Ramo? His trade value must be at its peak now.
But then who backs up Hiller? And what signal does that send to the team?
Agreed. Ramo may be worth re-signing. Perhaps you assess in the summer. We don’t need to move him.
Ortio is on a one-way contract next year, so I think the original plan was to have Ortio backup Hiller next year.
With Ramo as a UFA that may mean we lose him for nothing, if he’s not traded now.
This would have been an easier decision if we weren’t in a playoff spot right now.